Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-06-30

near Brldgewater Station, Washtenaw
colt the other day. He died from the in
juries few days later.
Work has just been commenced on the
new city hall at Corunna. John Harding,
a master builder, took the job at 81, 500 1t
will he built of brick and will be q hand
some addition to the other handsome public
buildings.
The 2-year old son of VIM. Chambers,
living four miles south of Battle Creek,
pulled a pan of boiling lard off the stove.
the lard running down the child's face,
neck and breast. The poor child died the
next day.
Several farmers IN Oshtemo are suffer-
ing great losses by the visitation of thous-
ands of grasshoppers About 100 acres of
clover and eighty acres of beans owned by
Henry Buckhout, and large fields of rye
are completely ruined. Much greater
losses are feared by neighboring farmers.
The James +. Kirk manufacturing com
pany of Muskegon has made arrangements
to remove its extensive establishment to
some point in Wisconsin about the first of
next year. They will buy large timber
tract suitable for their purpose and locate
ON il.
The remains of human being were
found I'm the woods near Petersburg, Mon
roe county, recently. They were evident
ly those OF woman. No clue to who she
was or how she died. The body is sup
posed to have been there for two or three
years at least.
Barney Drake hung himself by the neck
to the ladder in his barn in Springfield.
When found he had been suspended sew
eral hours. A coroner's jury was sum
moned but could not determine the cause.
Drake was "A years old and had resided in
Springfield 80 years.
Lucius Williams of Williamson, Ing
ham county, fired shotgun at what he
supposed was an animal in his back yard
that had been depiedating on his poultry.
1t was after dark and the object turned
out to be his little son, who was painfully
wounded in the legs below the knee.
st. Albertus Polish Catholic church of
Detroit, which for about eighteen months
has been closed and in the mean time has
been either scene or cause of riot and blood
shed was again opened for worship on
the cath. A large force of police were on
the scene and prevented any outbreak, and
none is now anticipated.
A. F. Northrup of Calvin, Cass county,
was robbed of $500 cash 10y two stranger,
who represented that they wanted to pur-
chase one of his horses. They induced
him to 90 to the bank and get $500, to
make change for $500 bill one of them
had. Upon his return one of them grabbed
The money and escaped.
The following candidates successfully
passed the examination and have been ad-
mitted to practice before the supreme court
of Michigan: Stewart A. Vandemark of
Detroit; A. ID. Elick of Pennsylvania; J.
A. Neatly of Detroit; j. A. Fairchild of
California: +. 5. Parker, Chas. Reed and
Will T.. Brown of Ann Arbor; James w.
Twaits, Berton l.. Jones and Henry ID.
Jones. The last three are of Lansing
Mr.. Twaits being a popular employe of
the state library.
Two months ago J. T. Hurst of Wyan-
dotte purchased of L. ii. McGraw IL Co.,
of Bay City, tract of timber fifty-fve
miles west of st. Ignace, between the
MillekOkin and Black Rivers, for con-
sideraton of $500, 900. The property is
estimated to contain 100, 900, 900 feet of
white pine, %, 600, 900 feet of Norway, TO-
900, 900 feet of black birch. the same
quantity of hemlock and large quantity
of other hardwood timber This property
is reported to have been sold again to
Nelson. Holland q Co., of Buffalo, and
East Saginaw for consideration of $780,
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